Dell Precision Workstations With NVIDIA Graphics Cards Enhance Cutting-Edge Scientific Research at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Overview

Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are contributing to the development of a new approach to high-performance parallel computing that uses clusters of processors and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to support new algorithms and applications in computational biology, computer vision, virtual audio, signal processing, and for interactively visualizing large scientific datasets. The University deployed Dell Services for assessment, design, implementation, and support; Dell Precision 470 workstations with Intel Xeon processors, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI Express graphics cards, PCI Express Topspin InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system; 24" Dell UltraSharp LCD 2405FP monitors; Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers running the Red Hat Linux operating system.